POET Technologies, Semtech Roll Out 1.6T Receiver Optical Engines For AI And Cloud Networks

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | September 30, 2025 07:07am

SAN JOSE, Calif. and CAMARILLO, Calif., Sept. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, today announced with Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductor, Internet of Things (IoT) systems and cloud connectivity service solutions, the immediate availability for customer sampling of high-performance 1.6T Receiver Optical Engines for AI and cloud networks.

The breakthrough optical engine products leverage POET's Optical Interposer™ platform to integrate Semtech's FiberEdge 200G-per-lane receiver technologies, creating highly integrated, chip-scale receive (Rx) engines that simplify module assembly while improving performance and manufacturability. The state-of-the-art optical engines include DR8 for short-reach AI cluster links and 2×FR4 for longer-reach intra-datacenter connectivity and are available immediately for customer sampling.

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